The leader, deputy leader, shadow chancellor and former shadow chancellor are all here – and everywhere you go, people are chanting Jeremy Corbyn’s name. Have the Labour Party secretly decided to locate their annual party conference to the Glastonbury Festival?

It might lack the sanitation facilities of a nice conference centre and hotel complex in Blackpool, but the name of the Labour leader is on everyone’s lips – from the tipsy lads queuing for food at night, to thousands in the Silent Disco, and from the man organising the festival himself, Michael Eavis.

Jeremy Corbyn is to appear on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday afternoon, and is rumoured to be also appearing – and doing more than just introducing a rap act – at the Left Field arena after his big moment.

Ed Balls, third right, and his wife Yvette Cooper, second right, waiting in a queue for the showers during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset (Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Also confirmed to take part in a debate at the Left Field is Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell.

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has already been photographed – he comes every year – and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper were photographed today queuing for a bite to eat in the hospitality area of the festival.

But it is the crowd’s love for Corbyn that has taken everyone by surprise. Every year, every festival brings its own meme – a chant that someone starts in a large crowd at a pinch point on the paths, or at a quiet moment between music, or even in the dead of night when most people are lying in their tents trying to get to sleep.

This year, it is the ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’ chant to the tune of White Stripes ‘Seven Nation Army’ – adapted from the football stands – that has become the 2017’s meme.

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On Thursday night, way past 1am, around hundreds were packed into the Silent Disco, wearing headphones and listening to music that no one else could hear. The DJ played the White Stripes track and everyone – even though they couldn’t hear each other – launched into the Jeremy Corbyn track, singing along to the iconic bass line.

Glastonbury Festival 2017 (Image: Clare Green)

Corbyn is scheduled to introduce American political-rap act Run The Jewels on Saturday afternoon, with a rumoured appearance on the Left Field Tent soon afterwards. But that venue is one of the smaller ones on the festival site, and it remains to be seen how the area will cope if it is inundated with people.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis said he was delighted Mr Corbyn had agreed to come. “We were so thrilled with the result that he had in the election,” said Mr Eavis, who received a video greeting from Mr Corbyn for his 80 birthday. “Millions of young people – Glastonbury people – voted for him.

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“I think he has a fundamental sense of justice, of real political change, of being anti-war and anti-nuclear

“That’s what we’ve spent our lives campaigning for too. Since Emily was two, we’ve been going to London to march for all those things that Jeremy represents,” he added.

Emily Eavis said there was a strong comparison to be made between her father and the Labour leader. “I think there are a lot of similarities between you and Jeremy,” she said. “You’re both men of the people, who’ve both been sticking to the same message for a long time.”